Seventy-nine years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan Fleming explains 'U' position 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1970 NIGHT EDITOR: STEVE KOPPMAN I Open it up or shut it down t THE COMING days are crucial to the success of the strike called by the Black "Action Movement for substantial increases in black enrollment. All mem- bers of the University community should actively participate. With a state college age black popula- tion of 18 per cent, the BAM demand for 10 per cent black enrollment by fall 1973 must be seen as minimal, reasonable, and obtainable. But it can only be obtained with an adequate financial commitment' from the University administration. At their meeting last week, the Regents set 10 per cent as a "goal" for black en- rollment by 1973 and indicated they would add $2 million to present Oppor- tunity Awards Program funds for this, purpose. But, the Regents and President Robben Fleming frankly admit that they may not be able to achieve the 10 per cent goal. And with only $2 million in new financial aid .funds, they are probably right. To achieve the 10 per cent figure, a commitment of at least $5 'million is essential. THE REFUSAL of the Regents to make this. kind of meaningful commitment demonstrates the low importance they place on black admissions. While millions of dollars now go to such things as war research, athletics, recruiting, s p e c i a 1 "honors" programs, and an inefficient, unresponsive administrative bureaucracy, financial aid goes wanting. Given limited resources, -the University must find money for increased black ad- missions by undertaking a major re-or- dering of spending 'priorities. There is no indication that the Regents are at present willing to make this change. The University has a responsibility in this area - a responsibility which it has consistently failed to recognize. Fittingly the institution, has long carried the label "For rich whites." The strike tactic speaks directly to the question of priorities. There is so much wrong with the way the University is run that it would best be shut down rather than continue on a path that is socially meaningless if not destricutive. SUPPORT FOR the strike appears to be growing in all corners. Hundreds of teaching fellows and faculty members are either cancelling their classes or holding discussions on the black demands. Thou- sands of students are on strike. IAN G. WRIGHT Business Manager PHYLLIS HURWITZ .Administrative Advertising CRAIG WOLSON .................Retail Advertising DAVID BELL. ..................., ....... Circulation I&ARK WALFISH ........................ Personnel VIDA GOLDSTEIN ................Staff Coordinator AMY COHEN . ...... .......... ..... ..Finance If support for the strike continues to grow, it will force the Regents and ad- ministration to face their responsibility to the black community directly and meaningfully. Widespread participation in this effort is essential. -THE SENIOR EDITORS By PRES. ROBBEN FLEMING Daily Guest Writer ][MEhKEY question, a r o u ni which all else in the BAM dis- pute seemsto revolve, is the ques- tion of 10 per7cent enrollment of blacks by 1973-74. The Regents agreed with the objective. They were concerned about funds to meet the goal. They did not want to promise something which they might not be able to deliver. I have long expressed my per- sonal view that racial discrimina- tion constitutes one of the most serious problems of our society, and that every individual and in- stitution must do its part toward solving the problem. When the Regents established a 10 per cent black enrollment goal for 1973-74 I accept that as a directive and I shall do everything in my power to achieve it. Toward that end I am committed. THE MONEY question, which so troubled the Regents, is a very serious one and it is to that ques- tionrthat.I shall addresstmost of the rest of what I have to ay. It involves -a budgetary analysis which is not simple and yet which cannot be ignored. First, the budget for the current year is $111,201,338. That figure, includes $1.75 million of carry- over funds from the previous year which the University would nor- mally use to pay bills in early July before newly appropriated money comes in. Because of the budget squeeze a year ago, the University was required to use up carry-over money this year, thus in effect, engaging in deficit fi- nancing. The $1.75 million can be used only once. Having been bud- geted, and spent, in 1969-70 it must be replaced in order to start the year 1970-71 with the same funds available as for the previous year. To balance its account for this year, 1969-70, the University not only used the $1.75 million, but also reduced the budgets of all schools and colleges and all other units by two per cent in order to avoid a fee increase. This required every unit to find ways of reducing its budget, including giving up vacant positions on the faculty roster, reducing supporting per- sonnel, reducing current accounts in the departments and reducing equipment accounts. The latter two reductions have been very serious and have given rise to con- tinual complaints from the de- partments that they cannot live on their current accounts, and that they must have increases for the next year. The equipment accounts, without which schools and colleges cannot acquire and mainstain up-to-date equipment, are also hurtingbadly. Finally, there is an inflation factor which is running in the neighborhood of six per cent per year. In the last several years the state has not found; it possible to take this factor into account in its appropriations, and the result is that the University must absorb it. The effect,, of course, is to stead- ily reduce the real dollar budget. WE ARE NOW IN the process of making the budget for the year 1970-71. The Governor has made his recommendations to the Legis- lature, and they include 8.5 mil- lion new state dollars, plus an as- sumption that the University will raise $3.5 million from internal sources, including $2.3 million from an increase in out-state fees. The 8.5 million new state dol- lars include, of course, funding the $1.75 million deficit in the current. . year that I spoke of earlier. The balance of the $8.5 million (ap- proximately $6.75 million) is des- ignated for salary increases, in- flation (at approximately a three per cent level), maintenance of new buildings (like the dental school and the Hatcher library), new enrollment at Flint, the ex- pansion in the medical and dental schools, plus a small amount of money for other odds and ends. Even if the Governor's budget goes through the Legislature in- tact it is improbable that a fee increase can be avoided. There is, as I have'; already pointed out, a fee increase for out-state students built into the Governor's budget in order to accord with the an- nounced general state budgetary principle that out-of-state stu- dents should pay 75 per cent of the direct cost of their education. All of what I have said so far about next year's budget is based upon the assumption that the Governor's proposals will pass 'the Legislature. In fact, this is in Endorsements THE FOLLOWING endorsements were explained in Sunday's Daily: For SGC PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Recommended: Marty Scott a n d Jerry DeGriek Qualified: Joe Goldenson and Steve Nissen Unacceptable: Bruce Wilson and Larry Solomon For SGC MEMBERS-AT-LARGE Excellent: Darryl Gorman, J o a n Martin Good: Henry Clay, William Thee, Bruce Wilson Fair: Cynthia Stephens, Dale Oes- terle, Jay Hack, Fred Wogel Unacceptable: Jim Zimmerman, Al Warrington, Rich Glenn, T o m Tichy, Kevin Lynn, Larry Solomon, Gary Dorman, Tom Moher For LSA STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Recommended: David Brand and Brian Ford; Qualified: Gerald Cole a n d An- drew Hoffman Unacceptable: Bob Nelson and Ray Littleton For LSA EXECUTIVE BOARD Excellent: Gene Kallenburg Good: Rebecca Schenk, Ray Kar- pinski, Shelly Reisman, Gerald Cole. Fair: Brian Sheridan, Jeff Tiren- gal, Ron Schurin, Tom Moher, Gary Dorman Unacceptable: Ann Grover, Andy Weissman, Ray Littleton, Ken Las- ser Gary Kravitz, Larry Markowitz, Bob Black, Richard Boss, Robert Schwartz IN ADDITION, we recommend a yes vote on all, four parts of the housing referendum,,supporting bet- ter preparations for the coming fall and planning 'for low cost single stu- dent housing. We also support a yes vote for a $3 per student assessment for the Martin Luther King fund. The question on the trimester is a matter of personal preference - but the view expressed by the s t u - dents should be the most important consideration in resolving this mat- ter. -THE SENIOR EDITORS Letters to the Editor No classes To the Editor: WE, THE UNDERSIGNED Teaching Fellows, support the BAM strike. Accordingly we will not meet our strike is settled of the BAM. Brian Abner Ed Abner Ken Abrams Susan Allan David Allen Mary Anglin Pete Archibald Fred Arnstein Wn. J. Ashby, Arthur Babcock James Bass David Bernstein Irvine Brawer Beryl Brown Patricia Buck D. Henry Buckley Doug Burke Bobbie Coffman Judy Cohen Ron Cohen Giacone G. Costa Albert Descoteaux Nikki Descoteaux Pam Ellis Richard England Phyllis Erenberg Ted Eruin Ross Feldberg Sam Ferrano Lawrence Fialkow Harold Fillyaw John Fox Paul Gingrich Carols Ginns Connie Goodman Stephen Goodman Tom Gordon Martin Halpern Terry Hamburg H. Hanmmerman Wm. Hawkins Alison Hayford Henry Heitowit Barry Herman Susan Hirsch Mary Huff Star Bennett Shawn Rosen Art Frankel classes until the to the satisfaction Russell Jackson Sara Ketchum Ken Kirkland John Krogman Donald Larkin Elliot Lefkovitz Laurie Lehne Bob Leichtner Art Mathis Janet Michelena Madeleine Noble C. O'Cleireacain .O'Cleireacain Sue Paun Leslie Pickering David Pisoni Carole Quarterman D. W. Rajechi John Reed Randy Reiter Stephanie Riger Mary Riskind B. Rubinstein Ann Sarishinsky Steve Schwartz Steven Schwartz Nora Scott Carol Shalita Mary Jane Schultz C. T. Spinazoa, Jr. Schuly Stein John Stevenson Frederick Sweet Adrienne Tentler John Umana Joann Vanek Mary Vaughn Taite Walkman ID. Warshawsky David L. Wilson David Whiteside Jim Zimmerman Sena Hoosenally John Francis Mary Beechy Joanne Zak Roddy Wares March 23 education to investigate classes to be made available as soon as possible geared toward Black Awareness and the demands set forth for any counselor to success- fully counsel not only Black Stu- dents, but all students that are culturally, economically, and edu- cationally deprived in today's so- ciety. FURTHERMORE, the class de- cided if individuals felt it was ne- cessary to meet with a client, that they would do so on their own and not as a part of the class. We will reconvene next Monday, Mar. 27, to consider once more the ne- cessity of furthering our action. -Journalism 721 Class March 23 West Indians To the Editor: THE UNIVERSITY in refusing to meet the just demands of the Black Action Movement has again shown itself as a racist institu- tion. This action is representative of the oporessive nature of t h e white world in dealing with the non-whites. We feel that it is with-, in the power of the Regents to re- arrange their priorities to accom- modate the needs of the minority groups in this University. We feel that the BAM is involved in a struggle necessary for the survival of the Black people in this country and is an integral part of the uni- versal struggle to oppose white op- pro Ssion. We urge the Univerity to meet the demands. . . NOW! -The Wert Indian Students March 23 r Rhad as peelts To the Editor: TWO ASPECTS of the BAM at The University of Michienn are highly inapnronriate in what is considered an environment of rea- son and intellect. The first is the blind insist-nc- of the BAM on the strategy of treating the symptom while allow- ing the disease to ravage. Certain- lv the Regents have given every rPsonabbe assurance of their com- mitment to treat the symptom as outlined by the BAM. Unfortun- ately, an attack at the college level will do little or nothing to ctre the disease existing in the life and schools of the ghetto. It would be far more appropriate for the BAM to insist that the Uni- versity apply its physical and in- tellectual resources to the source of the problem. Surely there can be no chance of a Black student entering the Univeristy on an equal basis with other students un- til the ghetto conditions have been eliminated. At this point the whole campaign of the BAM has been misdirected. The leaders of the BAM should plan a program like Enact if they expect to attack the real problems and not a single symptom., The second inappropriate as- pect is the deliberate use of the emotional strategy adopted by the BAM and their supporters. T h i s approach of making indiscrimin- ate charges and using terms with highly-loaded emotional connota- tions (e.g. racist) is very similar to vironment. that of the red neck segregation- ist.. There is no justification for such tactics in a university en- -Lance Erickson Asst. Director of Admissions March 23 Library To the Editor: WE, THE EMPLOYEES of the School of Social Work Library ex- press our support of the B I a c k Action Movement demands. grave doubt. In order to finance the Governor's budget certain tax increases are required. This is an election year, the public is re- sistant to tax increases, and it may well be that the tax measures re- quired will pass only in part. If this is so, there are three choices with respect to next year's budget: (1) Raise fees very substantially (as a rule-of-thumb, it takes ap- proximately a four per cent in- crease in tuition to raise one mil- lion dollars); (2) cut back sub- stantially on present operating budgets; or (3) work out some combination of the first two measures. UNPROMISING AS this much of the budgetary picture is, there are still other complications. Let me cite two examples of serious problems that are not just looming on the horizon, they are already with us. Many programs at the University are financed with so called "soft" money. By this is meant money which is not available on a recur- ring basis and which cannot there- fore be built into the budget in the sense of a guarantee. perhaps the best example at the University is the school of public health. which, incidentally, has a '14 per cent black enrollment. It relies al- most 50 per cent on federal funds, for support of its teaching person- nel. No one has questioned the cali- ber of its programs or the enorm- ous need for public health person- nel. Nevertheless, federal funds in support of its programs are being reduced. Is the answer to simply reduce thebudget of the school of public health unless and until federal funds are restored? If so, what do we do about tenured teaching personnel who are now on the payroll? A similar condition exists in the school of social work, where more than 25 fulltime teaching positions are financed by non-general funds; so also, in a number of depart- ments in LSA and Engineering. A second example: for two years we have been developing a PhD program in Urban and Regional Planning, and a new two-year curriculum in the Institute of Public Policy Studies. These urgent programs are both now flourishing, with excellent students, and ex- cellent curricula. They have, not had full regular budgetary support, and this must be supplied. I cite these matters, and there are a number of other examples, simply to illustrate the point which is essential to the dialogue over financing black student pro- grams. It is not enough to say that the University can, if it wants, guarantee that several mil- lion dollars will be put into a black student program regardless of what other events take place In the next four years. No matter how high the priority given - to black student programs, there are some other critical things which are going to have to be funded and in both cases a large amount of this money must be found by rearranging internal priorities. That, in turn, takes place largely within the colleges. WHEN THE REGENTS first re- ceived the proposal of the Exe- cutice Officers they were com- pletely sympathetic to the proposal to greatly increase black student enrollment, but for understandable reasons they inquired closely into how it could be financed. Ulti- mately, they agreed to the $2,000,- 000 increase although, like the Executive Officers, they are not entirely clear on where this money can be obtained. After listening to black students speak to their cause, the Regents went further and agreed that a ten per cent enrollment goal by 1973- 74 was desirable and that every effort to attain it should be made. They refrained from extending the money guarantee for the same rea- son they refrain in other such cases. Irresponsible promises may serve to get over immediate dis- agreements, but they do not con- tribute to long-run progres. Never- theless, their commitment to the 10 per cent enrollment figure is real and will be pursued witI* vigor. IF I MAY NOW simply sum- marize the Regents' response to the Black Studentsstatement, it is as follows: 1. On the addition of recruiters, the BAM document indicated a fixed number at the undergrad uate and graduate levels, while the Regents simply allocated $500,000 for 1970-71 to be used by Vice President Spurr in consultation with the student-faculty-adminis- trative committee provided for the Opportunity Awards Program How much of this is allocated for recruiters, counseling, financial aid, etc., is a matter to be decided at that level. An additional $500,- 000 will be added to the fund each fiscal year for the next four years so that the total will be $2,000,000. The -same process in annual al- location will be available. 2d Money has beenrallocated during the past year for student assistance to recruiters, and this will be continued. 3. The 10 per cent black enroll- ment figure by 1973-74 has al- ready been discussed. 4. Supportive services for black students must be increased. The Regents treated this as a part of the overall money problem, and thought the relative division of funds among the various purposes was best decided by the committee working with Vice President Spurr. It should be noted that there are substantial supporting -services available through the col- leges which do not make demands on the new money. 5. The financial aids office has already undertaken to review the parents' confidential statement, and work out the mechanics of an appeal board on student griev- ances with respect sto financial aid. 6. Tuition waivers were not re- garded by the Regents as a useful device because the cost of educa- tion per student remains and must be met from somewhere. The Re- gents 'thought that the same pur- pose could be better accomplished through financial aids. 7. On the Martin Luther King Fund, the Regents supported a continued faculty and student ap- peal; plus work with small foun 4 dations which had not previously been contacted, 8. The Regents committed $170,- 000 in 1970-71 to provide support for continued d'evelopment of the Afro-American Studies Program, the initial development of the Black Students Center, and the funding of special seminar sup- port. The allocation was assigned within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. 9. The University has a house available for the Black Student Center. 10. University deans and direc- tors, and through them the de- partmental chairmen, have been advised, as have University pub- lications offices, that black stu- dents wish to be referred to as black. 11. Chicano students - Vice President Spurr has been in dis- cussion with the Chicano group, and it is my understanding that these conversations have progress- ed to the satisfaction of all. llartmut Wisch Douglas Burnett Christine Bastow Karen Tate Marianna Ray Susan Palmer; Andrew Taylor March 23 ERIC SIEGEL, Sports Editor PAT ATKINS, Executive Sports Editor PHIL HERTZ ................Associate Sports LEE KIRK.. ................Associate Sports: BILL DINNER ............Contributing Sports CHRIS TERAS .......... Contributing Sports Editor Editor Editor Editor No. J. 721 To the Editor: STUDENTS OF THE Monday section, J 721 Counseling Practi- cum, voted not to hold class; Mon- day, March 23, 1970 in compli- ance with the current demands of the Black Awareness Movement. We fully support these demands, and request the Administration and Board of Regents reconsider their present stand. The class also requests the Dean of the school of Letters to the Editor should be mailed to the Editorial Di- rector or delivered to Mary Rafferty in the Student Pub- lications business office in the Michigan Daily building. Let- ters should be typed, double- spaced and normally should not exceed 250 words. The Editorial Directors reserve the right to edit all letters submitted. FINALLY, it is apparent that despite the racial tensions to which our history has exposed us, this program cannot succeed with- out the complete cooperation of all of us. I shall therefore be -in im- mediate and direct contact with, the schools and colleges to solicit their full aid and cdperation, and I welcome the much needed par- ticipation of both black faculty and students. We should immediately name the commitee to work with Vice President, Spurr in the implemen- tation of this program. Mean- while, I shall be glad to discuss further any aspects of it. A Dissent on LSA endorsement TH FIRST responsibility of the newly forming LSA Student Government is to insure that it is representative. In or- der for the government to achieve this status, it must form an assembly. This assembly is not comprised of the members of the executive board, who are being vot- ed upon by LSA students today, but is comprised of represeitatives from each department. What is needed to stimulate the 29 And on SGC too THERE WERE a number of glaring po- litical errors in yesterday's Daily elec- tion recommendations. Probably the wierdest comment w as the one directed at the Goldenson-Nis- son ticket, deemed only "qualified." Why not "recommended?" Because, on the one hand, they seemed insufficiently excited about maintaining "at least a civil re- lation" with administration figures while, on the other hand, they had too little nwmrsaceeof t+ha nai fnr arne ,.n+-o departments into participation 4n t h e government is a strong president a n d vice-president who understand that the government will draw its strength .from the assembly. Gerald Cole and Andrew Hoffman are the only candidates w h o have stated this position. Through their work .in the assembly and their respective department associa- tions, they have acquired the knowledge and ability to activate departments which have not yet formed committees, a n d make them - and each student in them -- part of a viable student government. COLE AND HOFFMAN also support the issues that have been presented con- tinually by all the candidates: minority admissions, judgment of students by their peers, no double jeopardy, parity on all faculty committees including tenure de- cisions, an open forum on recruiting and extension of the pass-fail option to all courses. But unlike any of the other candidates, they have explained that the most im- portant part in legitimizing the LSA Stu- dent Gnvernment is hv creatin' astrong. Low-cost housing: Solving the shortage By RICK PERLOFF ]jVHIS TOWN is short on housing. It has been for sometime - the hous- ing shortage emerged because University enrollment rose and the city's non-student population increased dramatically. W it h more people hunting apartments, apart- ments grew scarcer, And the resultant as- surance that somebody would always need an apartment allowed landlords to grad- ually increase rents and let their main- tenance slide. And now, Ann Arbor apartments are overly expensive, frequently poorly-con- structed and management companiesare largely unconcerned, assured that they needn't do anything about these condi- tions - on a long range basis at least - because they can always be guaranteed tenants. In addition, Ann Arbor has an approxi- mately two per cent vacancy rate, as com- nared to the national average which rana- some success - other, more publicity oriented ways to pressure landlords into recognizing the union. While the union must be respected as a constant gadfly, it seems that at this point it can have little effect on the market. It cannot, in other words, force a lowering in prices and an easing of the housing shortage which, University Housing officials agree, may reach critical proportions this fall. THE SITUATION MAY, in fact, reach such mammoth proportions that by the middle of the decade some students may not only be unable to locate the type of housing they want, but may additionally find no housing available in Ann Arbor. For with enrollment and the city's non- student population rising it is possible that there may not be enough apartments left. The solution appears to lie in the mas- sive construction of low-cost housing which would, hopefully, upgrade the qual- itv of Ann Arhnr hnsing and. of course sure on the landlords to lower their rents. The housing officials doubt that 5,000 units are necessary at this point. But, with the University and city population expected to continue increasing and with no sign of an easing of the money market, the situation can only get worse. The number 5,000 is admittedly an arbi- trary figure one that perhaps should be negotiated. But it is clear that the fact that a large number of working people have been forced out of the city by the high rents certainly justifies the building of as many units as possible to allow people who work in the city, to live there too. ANOTHER PROVISION on the refer- endum calls for the immediate location of 1,000 units for fall to ease the short- age. Ann Arbor landlords contend that a p a r t m e n t s will be especially 'tight next term - many rent hikes have s ipulates, be open to anyone in the com- nmunity. Surely students - who are much bitter off than many in the city - have no exclusive claim to the least expensive housing in the city. The working people, who now are forced to live in adjoining communities like Ypsilanti and Dexter, c rtainiy should be entitled to the low- cost housing. It was, after all, the Uni- vesity who drove them out initially and surely it is the University's responsibility to provide for them now. A FINAL PROVISION of the referendum asks whether all policies for tAe housing should be set by tenants. While this is the most nebulous portion of the refer- endum it remains that the apartments are built for tenants and it is the tenants - not the University landlord - who must live in them. Thus, it is the tenants who should de- termine the planning financing and other related policies for their housing units. A 1~ I